Improved rotary engine



UNITED STATES PATENT- Ormes.

. CHARLES MoNsCN, or NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVED ROTARY ENGINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 36,1654, dated Angllst'lv, 1862- To all w-hom t may concern.: l

Beit known that I, CHARLES MoNsoN, aciti zen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city and county of New Haven,

of the State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Repeating Rotary Engine; and I do hereby. declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and rep- -resented in the accompanyingdrawings, of

aggregate power of the whole or the useful et'.

feet thereof shall be increased, such current being either of a. liquid, aeriform, or gaseous character. K

The nature of 'my invention therefore will he found in a series of wheels, arms, or their mechanical equivalents confined within tight chambersorinclosures' and applied either to' one or a number of shafts, and so provided with passages of connection and discharge that the motive element under pressure, (as steam, for instance,) after having entered or acted on and putin rotation thefirst instrument of such series, shall be caused to pass out of thelinclosures of the said first instrument and so operate on each of the other instruments of the series, consecutively, as to induce rotation of eduction. In this respect my invention .ispe-v culiar. A series of bucket-wheels arranged in a stream would not be like it, for they would be such obstructions inthe current that, provided the first of the series were loaded to the extent it could carry, all of .the other Iwheels would be useless. In my plan, on the contrary, the current is effective throughout, even though the first of the series should be overloaded. This can be provedby an arrange ment of shafts as herein indicated.

In my engine I contemplate the use of steam expansively by a progressive enlargement of the bo're or capacity of the'arms, and presume it can be so employed with as much advantage as in most other steam-engines, and although I have hereinafter shown 'one construction o'r mode of carrying out my invention this'may be varied without changing tbeprinciple, combination, or character by which my inventionis distinguishable fromothers, it co'usisting in one or more chamberedshaftsa series or succession of wheels, arms, or equiva lent devices, and a series of air-tight boxes or chambers so combined and arranged and provided withpassages of induction and eduction that -one and the same current of fluid under pressure shall be made repeatedly available' for mechanical power, substantially as set forth.

In the drawings, A A A represent a series of cylindrical vessels or chambers piled or placed together end to end'and `furnished with a tubular shaft, B, extending through all of them axially. This shaft is to be soapplied to the' several chambers or vesselsas to be capable of being freely revolved on its axis. Within each chamber two or any other suitable number of curved arms, C C, .are made to project from the shaft or. from a hub, D, encirl cling it and fastened .firmly` to it.

A steam-chest or auxiliary chamber, E, is

fixed on the louter end of the first chamber or the bore of the shaft, so 'as to divide,the shaftl intca series of chambers, d d' d.

' The chambers d d' de are respectively encour-` passed by the chambers A A A, andeach of thev arms C opens 'at itsinner end directly into .the'shaft-chamber, lwhich is surrounded by its hub. Furthcrmoratliereis one or more holes, e, leading out of each of the montrait-cham- In rear of such hole or v bers, d' d, and into the chambers A A. There is also one or more eductiou-pipes, f,`leading .out of the chamber A2.

force ot" eliiucnt steam when discharged out'of vit shall tend to'produce a rotary motion of. the shaft, and particularly'in consequence of the reaction of the steam against a series ofA the Pins u y y When steam is let into the induction-pipe of the engine"A above described, it will rushl through the shaft-chamber d, and from thence into and out of the rst pair of arms, C, from whence it will ow into their vessel or chamber"A. From' this chamber A the steam will pass into the second shaft'` chamber, d,andl from it will rush into and through the second set of arms, C, and be received into the chamber A. From the chamber A it will lescape into the third shaft-chamber, d2, and finally will rush through thethird series of arms, C, and into the last chamber, A2, and .ont of the latter-y through the eduction pipe or pipes f. In'passing out of eachof the curved arms of the three sets of arms the steam by its reaction Vwill ,ex ert a force on the shaft' tending to put it in revolution.

The machineabove described maybe somel what varied in construction and yet be made to operate substantially as specied. For in stance, its main chambers may beseparated so that there may be spaces between them, and there may be a shaft to each chamber and pair of arms, there being a' pipe 0r conduit leading from each chamber .into the shaft of the suc ceeding chamber.

there may be a gear Vto connect with and put in operation the driving-gear of any mecham ism. EInstead of each of the several series of arms C C C, a hollow wheel may be used, provided .it be so made that while` discharging steam out of its periphery or other part such shall putl the wheel in revolution. I Icla-im- A repeating rotary engine constructedv iu manner or so as to operate substantially as described-viz., of two or more sets of curved arms, C, or their mechanical equivalents, a seri'csof two or more tight chambers or vessels, A A' A2, and a shaft (or its equivalent) divided into separate chambers and provided within# duction and escape passages, the whole being arranged substantially as set forth.

Witnesses:

*Daman MoRRtLL,

ORRIN MILLER,

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